Instrument board and engine brace



Apr. 3, 1923. 11,450,791 W. BETHKE INSTRUMENT BOARD AND ENGINE BRACE Filed Mar. 18, 1921 v4:5 bolts 13 and be hel Patented Apr. 3, 1923.;

WALTER BETHKE, OF WALBURG, TEXAS.

- INSTRUMENT BOARD AND ENGINE BRACE.

Application filed March 18, 1921. Serial No. 453,514.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTERBETHKE, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Walburg, in the county of Williamson and State 5 of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'an Instrument Board and Engine Brace, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to attachment for a motor driven vehicle, and hasfor one'of its objects to provide a simply constructed combined bracing and holding device adapted for coupling the cylinder head of the engine of the motor vehicle to the instrument board and mutually bracing, supporting and reinforcing the instrument board and preventing displacement under the severe strains to which the instrument board is subjected.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawing illustrative 2B of this preferred embodiment of the'invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of the engine cylinder head, a portion of the instrument board, and the hood, the hood and instrument board being in section.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged-detached plan view of the improved attachment. 7

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the device as shown in Fig. 2.

The im roved device is shown applied to a convent onal cylinder head 10 and instrument board 11 of a motor driven vehicle, a section of the hood bein represented at 12.

The bolts by which t e cylinderhead is retained in position are indicated at 13, the

clamp nuts at 14.

The improved attachment includes a clamp member 15 having apertures 16 at the ends adapted to on age over a pair of the in position by the nuts 14 as shown.

By this means the same bolts and nuts which heldthe cylinder head in place are utilized to hold the clamp member.

I Extending from the clamp member at one end is a brace member 17, and obliquelyto to receive a fastening device 22, whereby the member 20 is attached to the instrument board.

By this simple means the instrument board is firmly braced and supported from the engine and firmly resisting displacement under the severe strain to which it will be subjected in use especially when running .over rough roads.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be constructed from a single piece of rod of metal preferably steel, as light as possible consistentwith the strains to which it will be subjected.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawings and set forth in the specifications, but it will be understood that any modifications within the scope of the claim may be made in the construction without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages;

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is The combination with the instrument board and the motor casing of a motor driven vehicle, including the clamp bolts of the engine casing head, of a stay member perforated to engage a plurality of said bolts and held in place by the nuts of the same, a brace member extending obliquely from-one end of the stay member and attached at its free end to the instrument board, and a brace member extending chliquely from the other end of the stay memher and attached to the instrument board.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature hereto.

WALTER BET l 

